Life on File

I’m sorry little blog. I’ve been neglecting you for far too long. I would like another chance to rekindle my spur of the moment antics and venting sessions on you if you let me. I’ll be good I promise. I won’t disappoint!

Love, me!

My online portfolio has finally got a full revamp. Worked out most of the kinks and started adding in all my work that I’ve done in the past. It’s going to be a bumpy ride since I have crap all over the place. Meaning in CDs, thumb drives, work computer, personal computer, yeah… I’ve got my work load cut out for me. Then it will be time for me to focus on my online magazine! WOOHOO!

www.adanrico.com

From outer space!

I’ll stop there! And I have started blogging again. Yes, it’s true. 2009 was a year full of ups and downs and now that 2010 is here, it’s time to change things up and start finishing the things I’ve set myself up to finish in the first place! Lots of plans this year!

First, ciaopanda.com is now ciaopanda.net because those bastards snatched .com from right underneath my nose. Ciaopanda.net is returning with all new writers, reviews, and something else. It’s a secret for now. But in reality, I don’t know yet what is that “something else”… I’ll figure it out or find it when I get there!

Second, adanrico.com is getting a full revamp! FINALLY! OMFG! ABOUT FREAKING TIME!

Third, going to Miami in march for some great music and vacation time. Upon my return, it’s off to Coachella music festival for 4 days. WISH ME LUCK! Then, if all goes well, you’ll find me in Mexico for a week in June to visit family and vacation. Not sure about late summer and fall at this point but I’m sure it will be worth it.

Would like to squeeze in some Japan time some where this year but that all depends on other stuff at the moment.

Currently, still working full time as a Web Developer for Smith+Noble! Going to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh: Online Division for my Bachelor of Science in Web Interactive Media & Design. Live in Newport Beach, CA with a very close friend of mine who saved my life (more on this later) but will soon move to Irvine, CA in April.

The movie HACKERS, that starred Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller, was in theaters in 1995. The movie was ahead of it’s time and well, didn’t really reflect the life of a real hacker. It was exaggerated but it’s a movie and I loved the concept of it! I first saw the film in 1998 when it was at the local block buster and rented the VHS tape for kicks. To my surprise, this movie launched me to computer nerd world. I got my first computer soon after and it’s been history since then. One thing I enjoyed from the film was the summarized reading of the Hacker’s Manifesto. And I finally found it!

This is our world now…the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

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